The Water Is Wide

About the Book

The Water Is Wide is a combination of parts: part emigration history, part family history, part cultural history, part memoir, part reflection, and part meditation consisting of poems, lyrics, and a prose poem, mostly on the topics of loss and separation, remembrance and memory, movement and displacement, identity and heritage—all written from a Celtic perspective.

About the Author

June Sawers is a writer and editor. This is her first collection of poetry. James Sawers is a grant manager who loves haiku, meditation, martial arts, and science fiction—not necessarily in that order. Both were born in Glasgow, Scotland.